RED-CARD sinner Dorin Goian last night confessed Rangers keep committing football suicide and must ditch their death wish before facing Celtic.

Romanian stopper Goian will miss tomorrow’s clash at Celtic Park after being sent off in his team’s 2-1 defeat at St Mirren on Christmas Eve.

Rangers have let slip a 15-point lead in less than two months, and would fall two points behind the Hoops if they crash to Neil Lennon’s side at Parkhead.

Goian is gutted to miss the second derby of the season, and desperate for struggling Rangers to bounce back from a crisis of confidence and nick at least a point to remain top of the SPL going into 2012.

The 31-year-old said: “I’m sorry I’ll be missing the derby against Celtic.

“But in a derby like this anything can happen, even if the atmosphere at the club is not the best right now.

We didn’t expect to lose against St. Mirren, but you know how we are –we have a gift of making ourselves commit harakiri when nobody expects it

Dorin Goian

“We didn’t expect to lose against St. Mirren, but you know how we are –we have a gift of making ourselves commit harakiri when nobody expects it."

Lee McCulloch was sent packing with Rangers 1-0 ahead. Then Saints scored twice before half-time and held onto their lead while Rangers toiled.

Goian’s dismissal put the tin lid on a poor day for Rangers, who watched Celtic win their eighth game on the spin to narrow the gap at the top to just a solitary point.

Goian added: “It was hard to hold out with a man down from the 20th minute. After the sending off especially they came after us.

“Then of course came my own sending off, but the outcome of the game was already decided.”